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Nilanjan Chatterjee
Bornc. 1972 (age 51–52)
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Indian Statistical Institute
AwardsMortimer Spiegelman Award (2010)
Snedecor Award (2011)
COPSS Presidents' Award(2011)
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Statistics
Biostatistics
Oncology
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University (current)
National Institutes of Health

Nilanjan Chatterjee is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor[1] of Biostatistics[2][3] and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[4] He was formerly the chief of the Biostatistics Branch of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

He is known for his work in quantitative genetics, cancer research, big data, statistical methodology, genomics, gene-environment interaction, genetic association and genome-wide association studies.

Chatterjee received his undergraduate and postgraduate degree from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta and subsequently a PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1999.[5] His PhD thesis was advised by Norman Edward Breslow and Jon August Wellner.[6]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships".
  2. ^ "Faculty Page".
  3. ^ "Personal Page".
  4. ^ Messersmith, Julie "Nilanjan Chatterjee named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 11 November 2015. Retrieved on 11 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D." National Cancer Institute.
  6. ^ Nilanjan Chatterjee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project